Fatal HyperCard Bug

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From: Oliver Steele
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 02:28

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How to break HyperCard:

1) Cut a bitmapped image from somewhere.
2) Put yourself in a situation where you have about 600K free in
   the application heap in the Finder.
3) Enter HyperCard 1.0.1.
4) Make sure you're at painting or above.
5) Paste.

HyperCard switches to marquee mode, puts up a dialog saying "There is not
enough memory to use the painting tools," removes the dialog, puts up a
dialog saying "There is not enough memory to use the painting tools,"
removes the dialog, ....

Someone at Apple: will this posting get turned into a bug report?  Will I
get one of those rainbow bugs if it does?

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Oliver Steele				  ...!{decvax,ihnp4}!mcnc!unc!steele
							steele%unc@mcnc.org

Disclaimer:  Apple doesn't give away rainbow bugs.  Just testing the
rumor-mongering machinery.  Betcha John Dvorak writes about rainbow bugs
in January.

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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
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Subject: Fatal HyperCard Bug
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 22:28:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 22:28:40 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 07:26:14 EDT
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Keywords: fatal, bug, hypercard, croak, die, break, ugly death